bits-to-dead-trees

bits-to-dead-trees

🖥 -> 🌲 -> 📄 -> 🖨

Exposes a web server with a single endpoint to take in a URL and create a PDF out of that. It's using Playwright in the background for this.

Setup

Requirements

1. Node 16+
2. npm

Installation

1. git checkout https://github.com/rmehner/bits-to-dead-trees
2. cd bits-to-dead-trees
3. npm install
4. npm run build to build the app
5. npm start to start the server. It'll listen to port 8000 on localhost by default.

Development

• After updating the playwright dependency, you should run npm run update-schemas to make sure that the server knows about new PDF options
• Use npm run start:dev to start everything in dev mode with build watch and friends

Server

The server exposes the /pdf endpoint that listens to a POST request and expects a JSON body:

{
  "url": "https://your-target-url.com/site/you/want/a/pdf/of",
  "options": {}
}

options are the options Playwright knows about PDF: https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-page#page-pdf. We pass them to Playwright directly, so please refer to their docs.

The response is the PDF file.

Changelog

0.0.5

Patch Changes

• fae9c4e: Another try to get automatic Docker builds running
• ea597c1: More pipeline fixes (at least I hope so)
• c323966: Move docker build into own job